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Paraglider

Flying without an engine to get you out of trouble has never attracted me; when I had my last important job, as Operations Wing OC nearly 25 years ago, the station's glider club tried to tempt me to join and do a lot of engineless flying; but the day I had a flight the blustery day had the airspeed swinging wildly from 90 to nothing, and the nothing worried me :-).

But this paraglider seemed to be happy with his engineless lot, despite his or her repeated proximity to the ground and sea at the Jurassic Coast.  In the Extra, an idea of how close they were getting to habitation . . .

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